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Gate latch at the front entrance to a house on Salamanca Road, near Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington.
This is the retention bolt for the strong arm latch. This bolt keeps the latch from "turning" when someone pushes up against the gate.
Nautical in its simplicity, this style of latch keeps windows closed throughout Iceland. Well, throughout our flat, in any case.
It works: last week's Force 11 winds never found a fingerhold on our windows.
When I finally succumbed to owning a mobile phone in 2009 I was dismayed to learn the pitfalls of ‘predictive text’. I was sending text messages that didn’t make sense, or made sense, but were not what I intended. For example ‘r u home?’ became ‘r u good?’ – a nice enquiry, but essentially not helpful.
To overcome my dislike of ‘predictive text’ I decided to embrace it and explore other words that might be interchanged automatically by my hand held social innovator. I paired interchangeable words that created plays on words – a reminder of the many layers and textures of our texted text.
I chose the technique of latch hook to create these works. I have never really enjoyed this technique but was curious to see if I could use it in a contemporary context. The textured nature of latch hook and the possibility to depict text meant that this technique was well suited to my theme.
Latch hook is here presented in a wall mounted decorative form, as well as the more traditional form as a functional object – the cushion.
I had to buy a new dishwasher. This was a very inconvenient time for my to have to buy one. The door spring broke in October, and I went looking and pricing then, but decided I didn't want to spend the money until afer the first of the year. So we have been propping the door with an old wastebasket, and If you forgot to latch it shut, it would crash open and hit the floor. Then last week the latch on the detergent dispenser door quit working and that was the last straw. So I broke down and bought one. The old one was very inconvenient to use, so I know that now I have a new one, it will be much more convenient!
ODC 343 Inconvenient
This is a re-take of an earlier shot. I had better light this time and I've re-composed in view of comments from different people.
Penang Restaurant,
Edison, NJ
Heavy-duty wooden medieval-like bathroom door latch. That's so out of place in this kind of restaurant.
The mended middle window latch, the wood yet to be varnished over, which will make it more disguised.
Stops the window from pulling out, like it was doing.
©saraii thomas 2011
There is a clamping ring that holds the pin in place. You can pry it off with a screwdriver, but eventually you will need some snap ring pliers (Like at Harbor Freight) to get the ring back on.
While I was sitting waiting for my lunch to be served, this caught my eye. This hand-forged door catch was very likely to have been made by the village blacksmith - perhaps two or three hundred years ago. It adorns the door of the Trouble House Pub, quite an old door as you can see. But there is nothing utilitarian in this - look at the beautiful shaping of the plates and, if you look at it large, you will also be able to see a pattern etched on to the handle section.
It must be used dozens of times a day by people who don't even notice it - I didn't initially. And it has seen better days and could do with a clean up with a wire brush and a lick of paint. But I think it is a little gem!
There was another interesting piece of door furniture - I will post a picture of that, too! Maybe tomorrow!
There is another handle on the inside door, nearer to you in the picture - this one is cleaned up and painted black, also handmade, by the look of it. But it doesn't quite have the grace of the one on the outside door.